I NEED YOUR, HELP SERIOUSLY, I NEED YOUR HELP EXPLAINING SOMETHING. OR AT LEAST DISCUSSING. IT AND I MEAN, IT BECAUSE I AM TRULY STUCK. CAME TO HEAD WITH THE INDICTMENT, I READ THE WHOLE THING OUT LOUD FOR A PODCAST SO THAT THOSE WHO DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME TO DO IT COULD HEAR WHAT IS IN. IT IT IS DAMNING, ASSUMING THE ALLEGATIONS BEAR OUT IN A FAIR TRIAL, IT SHOULD END ANY DOUBT THAT REASONABLE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE ABOUT REELECTING DONALD TRUMP. AND IT SHOULD CONVINCE THOSE SAME, PEOPLE WHEREVER THEY SIT ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM, THAT THE NEXT ELECTION IS NOT ABOUT WRITER. LEFT IT IS ABOUT NOT POLICY AT, ALL BUT LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY. FOR THOSE WHO THINK WHAT IS UNFOLDING IS JUST ABOUT JANUARY, SIXTH IT'S, NOT IT'S ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT WE SHOULD HOLD DEAR AND FREE AND CARING AS PEOPLE. IT IS ABOUT THE RIGHTS WE STAND TO LOSE AS A COUNTRY. A WOMAN WITH A COMPLEX OR DANGEROUS PREGNANCY, WHICH IS MORE LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN AMERICA THAN ALMOST ANY OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRY, FACES POTENTIAL DEATH AFTER SEEKING MEDICAL CARE BECAUSE OF THE FEAR THAT DOCTORS IN HOSPITALS HAVE ABOUT BREAKING THE, LAW GETTING ARRESTED, LOSING THEIR LICENSE AND POSSIBLY GOING TO JAIL. IN TEXAS, AMANDA ZURAWSKI WAS DENIED A LIFESAVING ABORTION BECAUSE OF THE STATES ABORTION LAWS -- WENT INTO SEPTIC SHOCK. SHE ALMOST DIED. THIS IS AWFULLY CLOSE TO WHAT -- SHE LEFT AT THE END POSSIBILITY OF FICTION. IMAGINE A, WOMAN A, COUPLE WHO DID NOT INTEND TO BECOME PREGNANT. BECAUSE, YES THAT STILL HAPPENS IN AMERICA WHERE AN EXPLICIT SEX EDUCATION IS INCREASINGLY FROWNED UPON IN REPUBLICAN LED STATES. SOME REPUBLICANS ARE MAKING CONTRACEPTION HARDER TO GET. IMAGINE WANTING AN ABORTION, FOR YOUR, WIFE YOUR DAUGHTER, OR MAYBE THEY WANT ONE. THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO RAISE THAT CHILD IN ONE MAJOR DEVELOPED NATION WITHOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AND WITH THE SOARING COST OF EDUCATION. THE COST OF RAISING A CHILD UNTIL THE AGE OF 18 IS MORE THAN A QUARTER OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS FROM THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION. MEDIA AMERICAN WAGE IS $60,000. YET, 2020, FOUR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP, MIKE PENCE, ASA HUTCHISON IN TIM SCOTT, HAVE ENDORSED THE IDEA OF NATIONWIDE ABORTION RESTRICTIONS. IMAGINATION -- CAPTURED IMPORTED PEOPLE AGAINST THEIR WILL AND KEPT THEM ENSLAVED FOR 157 YEARS BEFORE BECOMING AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY, AND THEN FOUGHT A CIVIL WAR, 85 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE, IN WHICH 620,000 PEOPLE DIED TO END SLAVERY, AND THEN KEPT BLACK PEOPLE FROM ENJOYING THEIR FULL CIVIL AND VOTING RIGHTS FOR ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS. IMAGINE ALL THOSE YEARS IN WHICH MOST BLACK PEOPLE COULD NOT BEGIN TO ACHIEVE A QUALITY AND EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT, AND CERTAINLY NOT IN POLITICS. NOW, IMAGINE A COUNTRY THAT HAS TRIED TO WRITE THOSE WRONGS WITH THINGS AS BASIC AS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. NOW, IMAGINE A SUPREME COURT, PERVERTED BY A REPUBLICAN PARTY, BENT ON MAKING SURE THAT THE DEEPLY ROOTED RACIAL WRONGS OF AMERICA'S PAST COHEN CORRECTED. ACTUALLY, I'M WRONG ABOUT. THAT IT IS NOT A PARTY THAT ONCE THE WRONGS CORRECTED, IT IS A PARTY THAT WANTS THE WRONGS UNLEARNED. IT IS A PARTY THAT SOMETIMES TACITLY AND EXPLICITLY SUPPORTS THE BANNING OF BOOKS. CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF, OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR OF THE PRESS. THEY SAY. THEY, BEING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TELL ME HOW THE BANNING OF BOOKS FITS INTO THIS FIRST WE AMENDMENT. IMAGINE YOUR GAY SON OR DAUGHTER, I'M IMAGINING MINE, NOT HAVING THE RIGHT TO MARRY WHOM THEY LOVE BECAUSE AT LEAST ONE CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO SITS IN THE MAJORITY ON OUR NATION'S HIGHEST COURT HAS THWARTED THAT POSSIBILITY. IMAGINE A CHILD WHO DOES NOT IDENTIFY WITH THE GENDER TO WHICH THEY WERE BORN, DON'T AGREE WITH, IT DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHAT BATHROOMS THEY GET TO USE OR WHAT TEAMS THEY GET A PLAY, ON JUST IMAGINE IT. IMAGINE ALL THE ANXIETY AND CONFUSION AND STRESS THAT COMES WITH BEING A KID TODAY. ALL THE QUESTIONS ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL IDENTITY, AT THAT, THE STRESS OF WONDERING IF YOUR OWN BODY IS BETRAYING YOU. THOSE CHILDREN ARE BEING PERSECUTED TODAY. IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE. ALREADY, IF YOU ARE TRANS IN AMERICA YOU ARE LIKE WE HAVE BEING BULLIED, AND, MURDERED OUR STATISTICALLY HIGHER TO THAT OF AN AVERAGE AMERICAN. TRANS PEOPLE ARE OVER FOUR TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE THE VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIME AND CISGENDER PEOPLE. THAT'S ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY UCLA. WHAT ABOUT YOUR VOTE? YOUR BELIEF THAT YOUR VOTE MATTERS? YOUR FAITH THAT YOUR VOTE WILL BE COUNTED? THAT IS THE BASIS UPON WHICH OUR REPUBLIC IS GROUNDED. THE LEADING CONTENDER FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ACTIVELY WORKED TO UNDERMINE THAT CORE BELIEF, DESPITE KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE WAS NO OUTCOME DETERMINED IN THE 2020 ELECTION. AN ELECTION HIS OWN EXPERT SAID WAS THE SAFEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AN EXPERT WHO WAS SUBSEQUENTLY FIRED FOR SAYING THAT. IT'S NOT JUST A LEADING CONTENDER, ONLY FOUR OF HIS REPUBLICAN OPPONENTS HAVE SUPPORTED HIS PROSECUTION TO UNDERMINE THIS RIGHT. NIKKI HALEY SAID, QUOTE, WE HAVE TO MOVE FORWARD. WHICH IS A POPULAR SENTIMENT I HEAR OFTEN. EXCEPT WE CAN'T. WE CANNOT MOVE FORWARD FROM CONSIDERATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF OUR PEOPLE. ALL OF THIS IS ON THE, LINE DEMOCRACY IS ON THE LINE. I HAVE HEARD ALL THE CRITICISMS OF JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS, THAT JOE BIDEN AT 80 IS A WHOPPING THREE YEARS OLDER THAN DONALD TRUMP. HE SEEMS CONFUSED, UNLESS OF, COURSE PICKING UP THE HUMPTY-DUMPTY THAT WAS NATO AND PUTTING IT BACK ON THE WALL TO HELP UKRAINE FIGHT OFF AN ATTACK FROM ADVERSARY 28 TIMES IN SIZE IS CONFUSED. I'VE HEARD THAT HE IS FOCUSED ON BEING WOKE BUT NOT ON THE ECONOMY, DESPITE 31 STRAIGHT MONTHS OF JOB GAINS, ALL OF THE JOBS LOST IN THE PANDEMIC RECOVERED PLUS 5 MILLION MORE. INFLATION DOWN TO A LEVEL THAT MOST GLOBAL ECONOMISTS BELIEVE IT'S SUSTAINABLE. A STOCK MARKET UP TYUS LEVEL IN HISTORY. UNEMPLOYMENT AT ITS LOWEST LEVELS IN HISTORY. AS IS HIS PREDECESSOR USED TO SAY, MORE AMERICANS ARE WORKING NOW THAN EVER BEFORE. YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WE HAVE MORE OF THAN EVER BEFORE? HEAT. ANOTHER CABLE STATION, I WON'T CALL IT A NEW, STATION WHICH -- HAS BEEN AIRING SEGMENTS ABOUT THE SO-CALLED CLIMATE SCAM. CRITICAL THINKING HUMANS ARE DESPERATE TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL BOILING, AND THEY ARE STILL DISCUSSING WHETHER OR NOT IT IS A THING. DONALD TRUMP FAMOUSLY SAID IN OFFICE,, QUOTE WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON MAGNIFICENTLY CLEAN AND HEALTHY AIR AND NOT DISTRACTED BY THE EXPENSE HOAX THAT IS GLOBAL WARMING, END QUOTE. MAGNIFICENTLY CLEAN AIR, HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT FOR YOU? ALL OF THIS IS FACT. I INVITE ALL THE RIGHT-WING SHOWS AND TROLLS THAT LIKE TO MONITOR THIS SHOW FOR ACCURACY TO TAKE EVERY WORD OF WHAT I AM JUST SAID AND PUT IT INTO CHATGPT, OR WHATEVER COUNTS AS REACHES FOR THEM THESE DAYS, AND CHECK ME FOR ACCURACY. BUT THAT'S NOT MY ASK OF YOU. MY ASK OF YOU AS, HOW DO I DISCUSS THIS WITH PEOPLE WHO WON'T LISTEN? WITH PEOPLE WHO DON'T WATCH THE SHOW OR THIS NETWORK? WHO READ THE NONSENSE ABOUT BOTH SIDES AND THINK IT IS BIDEN, NOT THE GOP. WHO ARE WEAPONIZING GOVERNMENT. HOW DO I CONVINCE THEM THAT THEY ARE IN FACT INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO THE RIGHTS OF ALL OF US? HOW DO I CONVINCE THEM NOT TO VOTE THEIR DEMOCRACY AWAY? NOT ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF THE HISTORY, THE FUTURES OF WOMEN, THEY, PEOPLE, TRANSATLANTIC -- THE KIDS WHO JUST WANT TO READ BOOKS NOT TO VOTE THERE RIGHT AWAY. JUST BECAUSE THEY WANT LESS REGU
